If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian By Region Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz By Region
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein By Region Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper By Region
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre By Region The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan By Region
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte By Region "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) By Region
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Region Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) By Region
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel By Region "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana By Region
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight By Region There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben By Region
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) By Region There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe By Region
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern By Region The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain By Region
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis By Region It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Region
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver By Region
